Thursday, 2 May 2013

RPK STANDS BY HIS STORY ON LAHAD DATU

QUESTIONED....
The popular blogger was today questioned by two CID personel from Bukit Aman in
Jakarta over his article on Anwar, MNLF founder Nur Misuari and the Lahad Datu
incursion.

By : FMT STAFF

PETALING JAYA: Popular
blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin today stood by his article that Pakatan Rakyat
leader Anwar Ibrahim sought the help of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
founder Nur Misuari to win the general election.

Raja Petra, better known as
RPK, also told two CID officers from Bukit Aman in Jakarta today that the
contents of his posting on March 25 on his website Malaysia-Today was based on
a reliable source.

The Malaysian police today
took a statement from Raja Petra at the Malaysian Embassy in Jakarta over his
article titled “The Untold Story of the Lahad Datu Incident” in which Raja
Petra had claimed that Anwar had met Nur Misuari and his top military
commanders on July 16, 2012 in Indonesia.

“I told the two CID officers
that I stood by my article and that my source for that article is totally
reliable,” Raja Petra told FMT via a telephone interview after his three-hour
session with the policemen.

He said the policemen had
asked him on the veracity of his article in which he had said that Anwar had
sought Nur Misuari’s help to win at least 30 of the 57 parliamentary seats in
East Malaysia to wrest federal power from Barisan Nasional.

The meeting, Raja Petra had
added, took place at the Crowne Plaza Jakarta Hotel and was arranged by an Indonesian
MP close to Anwar.

In his article, Raja Petra
wrote that Anwar had urged Nur Misuari to convince Muslims in East Malaysia,
particularly those from Sabah, to vote for Pakatan Rakyat in the 13th general
election.

In return, Raja Petra
claimed that Anwar had promised that Sabah and Sarawak would be given autonomy,
once Pakatan wins federal power.

“The states will be given
20% oil royalty which will ensure that Sabah and Sarawak become wealthy, with
an estimated RM4 billion a year for each state.

“Anwar also promised that
the non-Malaysian Filipinos in East Malaysia would be given Malaysian
citizenship, or at the very minimum, permanent resident status so that they
could seek employment in Sabah,” Raja Petra alleged in his article.

The blogger also claimed
that Nur Misuari had agreed to Anwar’s terms and appointed Ibrahim Omar as his
coordinator, or “unofficial ambassador” to Sabah to help Anwar garner the
support of the Filipino Muslims in the state.

Raja Petra also had said
that this arrangement put the Malaysian government in a bind during the Lahad
Datu intrusion, as taking military action would only play into the hands of the
conspirators, adding that intrusion was definitely a shadow play and many are
convinced there were people who masterminded the episode.

“But who is the dalang
[puppet master]? Well, Malaysia-Today has just revealed the untold story and I
challenge the Malaysian government to deny its authenticity,” he had stated in
his article.

Summoned by the Malaysian
police

Following the publication of
the article, Raja Petra was summoned by the Malaysian police to give a
statement. He flew down from the UK, where he is based now, to Jakarta
yesterday to meet with the two CID personnel today.

“They wanted to know who
were my sources. I didn’t reveal the identity of my sources but told them the
organisation from which the information came. They should be able to do their
own homework to find out the truth,” he said today.

He added that he told them
to take his entire article as part of his statement for their investigation.

“They should now do their
police work. I can’t be doing everything for them. I have confirmed to them
that the information that I put out was reliable, and now the police will have
to start asking questions to the right people,” he said.

He also said that he had
named two other PKR leaders who had knowledge of the Anwar-Misuari link.

“They should start
questioning Anwar and the other two PKR leaders. They can find out more about
the role they all had in this,” he said.

After Raja Petra’s article
was published, PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli dismissed the allegations,
saying that the former had not provided “a shred of evidence”.

“Dia cerita ikut kepala dia
saja [ he is just telling tales)… He has not much credibility left,” Rafizi had
said.